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Showing posts with label Advanced Directives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advanced Directives. Show all posts
Monday, January 22, 2024

Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity — Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics

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Bernard Lo The New England Journal of Medicine Originally published 16 Dec 23 Here is an excerpt: Empirical studies...show that advance dire...
Monday, September 17, 2018

How our lives end must no longer be a taboo subject

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Kathryn Mannix The Guardian Originally published August 16, 2018 Here is an excerpt: As we age and develop long-term health conditions...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

‘My death is not my own’: the limits of legal euthanasia

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Henk Blanken The Guardian Originally posted August 10, 2018 Here is an excerpt: Of the 10,000 Dutch patients with dementia who die eac...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Who Decides When a Patient Can’t? Statutes on Alternate Decision Makers

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Erin S. DeMartino and others The New England Journal of Medicine DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms1611497 Many patients cannot make their own medical ...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Decision-making on behalf of people living with dementia: how do surrogate decision-makers decide?

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Deirdre Fetherstonhaugh, Linda McAuliffe, Michael Bauer, Chris Shanley J Med Ethics doi:10.1136/medethics-2015-103301 Abstract Backgro...
Monday, September 5, 2016

Are doctors who know the law more likely to follow it?

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By Ben White and Lindy Willmott BMJ Blogs Originally posted August 17, 2016 Here is an excerpt: Compliance with the law was low with o...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

Is It Immoral for Me to Dictate an Accelerated Death for My Future Demented Self?

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By Norman L. Cantor Harvard Law Blog Originally posted December 2, 2015 I am obsessed with avoiding severe dementia. As a person who has...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Physicians and Euthanasia: What about Psychiatric Illness, Dementia and Weltschmerz?

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By Eva Bolt BMJ Blogs Originally posted on February 18, 2015 Here is an excerpt: Concluding, while most Dutch physicians can conceive ...
Sunday, March 8, 2015

Which Doctors Should ‘Own’ End-of-Life Planning?

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By Randi Belisomo Medscsape February 12, 2015 The duty to guide patients through the end-of-life decision-making process rests squarely ...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Medicare considers funding end-of-life talks

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By Pam Belluck The New York Times Originally published August 31, 2014 Five years after it exploded into a political conflagration over ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Why Are Americans Scared to Talk About Dying?

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The number of people with legal documents detailing how they want to die remains low, suggesting talk of death is still largely taboo. By ...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Hiring an End-of-Life Enforcer

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By Paula Span The New York Times - The New Old Age Originally published October 24, 2013 The chilling dilemma of “the unbefriended elder...
Friday, October 11, 2013

When There’s No Family

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By PAULA SPAN The New York Times Originally published September 23, 2013 I rarely write about advance directives and end-of-life discuss...